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Monday OT: September 23 is Celebrate Bisexuality Day (worldwide)

September 23 is day 266 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 47, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.15.7 by the Mayan Long Count

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On this day in history:

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On September 23, 1338, the first naval battle of the hundred years' war, the Battle of Arnemuiden, occurred. Big whoop, but - it was the first known naval battle to involve gunpowder based artillery. Five, count 'em, five, English cogs were set upon by a huge French fleet. One English ship had 3 cannons and a hand gun, but they were merchant ships. Insofar as they were set upon by a sizable French fleet, we must assume that those were the equivalent of warships. After an entire day's combat, the French forced the English to surrender, captured the English ships and their cargo, and slaughtered all of the surviving crewmen. Total English fatalities were 1,000, to a mere 900 for the French. The war continued for well over 100 years, nonetheless.
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1779brought us a more famous naval battle, though not necessarily by name, Battle of Flamborough Head. This ws the famous ship to ship duel between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis in which John Paul Jones declared that he had not yet begun to fight and which he eventually won. Cannons were de rigeur by this time, though two of Jones' 18 pounders exploded killing those nearby, causing Jones to abandon the use of an entire battery of 6 of them. This was a classic pyrrhic victory in many ways, but Jones won the battle and fame sufficient that in his later years he was hired by none other than Catherine the Great as a rear admiral in the Black Sea.

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Neptune was discovered on this day in 1846, but nobody was able to plant a flag on it so it remained unclaimed.

@Lookout
month, but are having a bit of a heat spell by local standards currently. Cheers for XR, let us hope that something comes of all this. Sorry about all of the typos that I just corrected. Problems with the hands for a few months now,

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you.”

Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg made a angry, accusatory speech to world leaders on Monday in New York.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

Moving slow today, no energy. Have to go to Spectrum and change out their modem, not working so i'm on wifi.

@smiley7
and remarkably, demonstrably true. Hope it has the impact it warrants.

Good luck with the modem.

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you.”

Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg made a angry, accusatory speech to world leaders on Monday in New York.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

Moving slow today, no energy. Have to go to Spectrum and change out their modem, not working so i'm on wifi.

Have a good one.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg made a angry, accusatory speech to world leaders on Monday in New York.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

Welcome to the 99% club, Madame Greta. Eternal economic growth for them, suffering, dying, and eco-collapse for us. Throughout living memory it has ever been thus.

And thank you for taking up the fight, most gallant Lady!

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you.”

Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg made a angry, accusatory speech to world leaders on Monday in New York.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

Moving slow today, no energy. Have to go to Spectrum and change out their modem, not working so i'm on wifi.

Have a good one.

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"I say enough! If Israel wants to be the only superpower in the Middle East then they can put their own asses on the line and do it themselves. I want to continue to eat."-- snoopydawg

Swedish school girl Greta Thunberg made a angry, accusatory speech to world leaders on Monday in New York.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

The next few days are going to be really hot again. Last week we had one day at 105. If this keeps up it’s going to wreak havoc with the wildlife. The bees were freaking out carrying water to their hive. It will no doubt be Bay wide.

The next few days are going to be really hot again. Last week we had one day at 105. If this keeps up it’s going to wreak havoc with the wildlife. The bees were freaking out carrying water to their hive. It will no doubt be Bay wide.

Thanks for the OT. Have a good one...

Edit to say the embed did not work on the tweet. meh.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --